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| Cereal butter squid madness |
It's been ages since a post! As much as I hate starting the post
with an apology...it is because I've been away in Hong Kong fattening
myself up and eating out for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And post
dinner. And post dinner dinner snacks. And all the goddamn day street
hawker snacks. Actually, I think the whole time I was there, I was never
starving...but a constant 'I could eat' mentality. Half way up a
mountain? 'I could eat'. Winning at the night time horse races at Happy
Valley? 'I could eat'.
There were a million and one dishes I
wanted to take back to London and recreate. It's definitely my place of
inspiration and I can't wait to go back. Another reason why I've been so
rubbish lately is because I had some wonderful news in the form of a
deserted beach on an island, my boyfriend, sunset and a proposal.
(complete with a full stomach). I'm absolutely over the moon and
couldn't be happier. These are the first non food related pics, but I
just wanted to share them with you all.
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| The spectacular and romantic Turtle Bay in Lamma Island |
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| Lamma Island sunset |
Great stuff, now that's out the way let's get to the food. Because,
let's face it, we could all eat. We went to Singapore for a few days to
see the sights and we met up with some friends. We were treated to a
brilliant local eatery (the best places in Asia are anything with
pictures of the food, plastic chairs, maximum three walls by a busy
road, and beer girls making they're rounds). We ordered another
traditional dish called cereal prawn. Cereal?! Like cornflake cereal
with prawns? OH YES. This was glorious - a dish which is buttery,
fragrant, crunchy and sweet all at the same time. It is made from a
cereal called Nestum, which is a light wheat cereal brand Malaysians and
Singaporeans adore. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any in the UK, and
so I've used oats instead. Slightly heavier than Nestum, I switched a
few ingredients to make a new variation to better suit this instead.
